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Claire Dorothea Taylor Palley OBE (born 17 February 1931) is a South African academic and lawyer who specialises in constitutional and human rights law. She became a professor of law at Queen's University Belfast in 1970, making her the first woman to be law professor in the UK, and was the first to become dean of a law school in the UK in 1971, also at Queen's University Belfast. She moved to become a professor of law at the University of Kent in 1973, and was then Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford from 1984 to 1991. She also advised on constitutional law in Southern Rhodesia, Cyprus and Northern Ireland, and served as the UK's representative on the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. ==Early and private life== She was born in South Africa in 1931, into a Jewish family. Her father Arthur Aubrey Swait was born in England in 1895. He served in the First World War as a cyclist before being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. He emigrated to South Africa and married Cecile Audrey Nathan in Johannesburg in December 1929; she was the daughter of the jurist Manfred Nathan. She had one younger sister, Anne Christine, who later, as Anne Routier, became a National Party Member of Parliament in South Africa, and also served on the Constitution Commission and the South African Human Rights Commission. She grew up in Durban, and attended Durban Girls' College. She then started to study microbiology at the University of Cape Town, but switching to study law in her first year. She graduated with a BA and an LLB. She married Ahrn Palley in 1952; he was some 17 years older, and had qualified as a medical doctor before retraining as a lawyer as a mature student at the University of Cape Town. They opposed apartheid, and moved to Southern Rhodesia in the late 1950s. Ahrn Palley was elected as an MP in Southern Rhodesia in 1958 for the opposition Dominion Party. He became an Independent, and was reelected in 1962 as the only Independent. He opposed the white-led Rhodesian government from 1962 to 1970, and opposed Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. The Palleys had five sons. They were divorced in 1985. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claire Palley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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